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Calls to repeal 'no body, no parole' laws
Manage episode 424036890 series 5457
‘No body, no parole’ laws were introduced in NSW as a way of trying to bring closure to the families of murder victims.
But opponents of the law, introduced just two years ago, say they can harm people who are later proven to be wrongfully convicted.
The law was supposed to incentivise convicted murderers to reveal the location of their victim's body, in return for favourable parole conditions being attached to their sentence.
Two women at the centre of Australia’s most notorious cases of wrongful conviction, Kathleen Folbig and Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton, have joined an alliance of lawyers to call on the NSW Government to overturn the laws.
4327 episodes
Manage episode 424036890 series 5457
‘No body, no parole’ laws were introduced in NSW as a way of trying to bring closure to the families of murder victims.
But opponents of the law, introduced just two years ago, say they can harm people who are later proven to be wrongfully convicted.
The law was supposed to incentivise convicted murderers to reveal the location of their victim's body, in return for favourable parole conditions being attached to their sentence.
Two women at the centre of Australia’s most notorious cases of wrongful conviction, Kathleen Folbig and Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton, have joined an alliance of lawyers to call on the NSW Government to overturn the laws.
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